Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rouault, the largest single showing of his oil paint ings ever held. Hulking, testy Ambroise Vollard was born in the Isle de la Reunion southeast of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, went to Paris over half a century ago to study law. He was an indifferent lawyer, but his eye for art was alert; he recognized the ability and the future value of the French Impressionists - Degas, Manet, Monet, Renoir - at a time when only one other man in France, the late Art Dealer George Durand-Ruel, was willing to take a chance on them. Ambroise Vollard bought his first...
...Russian newspapers. Before that he had been a soldier. Tsarist against the Germans, a Red artilleryman against the Whites. Now in Moscow (he was born in Odessa) he has beaten his sword into one of Russia's most trenchantly successful pens. Sharp of nose, chin, ear and eye, with black hair dipping into an acute widow's peak, Kataev is 36, just about the right age for a New Russian. His earlier book (The Embezzlers ) was written with such humorous disregard of officialdom that U. S. readers wondered about Russia's censorship. In Russia Kataev...
...goods industries which will supply the materials and instruments for the public works. Despite all the efforts of the Administration this sector of business is still deep in the dumps; this particular fillip may not do the trick but at any rate it indicates that Washington has its ubiquitous eye on a vital spot...
...from three separate points, the Oak Ridge Observatory at Harvard, Massachusetts, the Blue Hills Observatory in Milton, and Hopkinton, about 25 miles west of Boston, in order that the height, as well as the course of the meteors may be computed. The meteors will be recorded by the naked eye, the telescope, and camera, from 12 o'clock until dawn, but the weary hours of watching will be relieved by rest spells and refreshments...
...Gulf of California (then called the Vermilion Sea), Juan fraternized with the pearl fishers, swallowed many a fish story. Besides mermaids, these fishermen were in great dread of the ojon, a large, flat fish with a single eye in its back, which had to be treated with excessive politeness or it would start a tornado. Said one of them: "I have come home from a Gulf trip so weak with suppressed rage at enforced politeness to an ojon, that I nearly died before I could pick a fight with some land dawdler or beat my wife about a trifle...